So I got the first coat of paint on the end tables! Here’s how they’re looking mid-progress:

Excuse everything happening in the background. It’s the middle of winter and the only place this can be done is my unfinished basement 😉

They already look 100% better! I’m so happy with them so far. The first coat dried way better than I anticipated, so I’m looking forward to the second coat and wrapping this project up. I thought that it would be really patchy and streaky since you could see my brush and roller strokes once I got the first coat on, but the paint settled nicely! This is really encouraging considering I have an old dresser that I have been eyeballing to strip and paint as well. I might as well have matching pieces in there and since I don’t want to buy new furniture, I’m game to put in the elbow grease!

I have a lot of ideas of how I want to pull the room together once these are in there. I have been scouring the internet for art prints, wall decals and bed sets and I’m getting more and more excited to see the finished product. Can’t wait to show it all pulled together!

A few weeks before Christmas, I decided that I am going to take more control of how I eat and how I exercise. Up to that point, my exercise routine was zilch and I was eating whatever, whenever. I’ve always had a pretty high metabolism so that was in my favor, but I’m going to be 29 this year and I’m starting to feel like I need to pay more attention to what I put in my body. I have a very sedentary job and I just kept feeling worse and worse. Of course, because I am an expert procrastinator I kept making excuses for why I couldn’t fit exercise into my day: “my work hours are bad”, “I don’t get home until late then I have to eat and shower”, “I’m just too tired after work”.CONTINUE READING

Since Joey and I have been doing things here and there around the house to make the house more centered around our own tastes, I decided to tackle the guest bedroom a little bit at a time. His parents gave us a set of end tables they had years ago, and we have been using them in a different room in the house up to now. They’re probably from the 80’s, so they didn’t match any of our decor, but all of my Fixer Upper and Property Brother’s binge watching gave me the idea that I could refinish them. So that’s what I set out to do! The main takeaway for this project?

1.) I have no idea what I’m doing and

2.) Lowes is my new best friend

They’re beautiful, solid wood tables in pretty darn good shape! (We took the glass insert out.) The finish was coming off and they are a little bit banged up in spots but otherwise fine.

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